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Thomas W. Wilson PhD, MPH, DrPH
Epidemiologist


Thomas Wilson, PhD, DrPH is a nationally known epidemiologist specializing in the evaluation of programs and products designed to understand and/or impact defined populations. Such programs include disease management, case management, payment-for-performance programs, predictive algorithms, and electronic medical records.  

Wilson is the principal of Trajectory® Healthcare, LLC--a strategic epidemiologic consultancy firm. The firm has provided epidemiologic services to the Medicare program, State Medicaid Agencies, health plans, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, private non-for-profit foundations, care management vendors, and employer groups.

Dr. Wilson is also the founder and board chair of the Population Heath Impact (PHI) Institute (www.PHIinstitute.org ), a non-profit organization advocating for credible, independent, and transparent evaluations of organized population health management programs. The PHI Institute was recently awarded grants from the Health Industry Forum at Brandeis University and the Institute for Health and Productivity Management.   He is currently the co-chair of the Patient Safety and Quality Committee of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA), and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Health and Productivity.  

He received his doctorate in epidemiology from the School of Public Health at University of California , Low Angeles, and doctorate in bio-history from Bowling Green State University.

Professional positions include the Corporate Epidemiologist at Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, faculty research positions at Columbia University and UC Berkeley, a NIH post-doctoral fellowship position in cardiovascular disease, and a Fulbright award lectureship.  

Publications include contributor (and associate editor) to the encyclopedic Cambridge World History of Human Disease, commissioned works on disease management evaluation from the DMAA and the AcademyHealth's State Coverage Initiatives, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Other writings have appeared in the American Journal of Hypertension, American Journal of Managed Care, Annals of Internal Medicine, Barron's Weekly, Cambridge University Press, Circulation, Disease Management, Duke University Press, Employee Benefit News, Health Affairs, Joint Commission Journal of Quality and Safety, Journal of the American Geriatric Society, Lancet, Statistics in Medicine, Journal of Health and Productivity, and others.

He is a frequent speaker at national meetings on the use of evidence-based principles to design care management program improvement programs and to assess the impact of population health improvement initiatives.  

Wilson can be reached by email at twilson@trajectory-inc.com or twilson@PHIinstitute.org ; telephone: 513.289.3743; mailing address: 10663 Loveland-Madeira Rd, #210 ; Loveland , Ohio 45140 .